The manufacture of miniature Stirling cycle cryocoolers, using standard micro-machining techniques and materials has been pursued by the authors [1]. A MEMS based cryocooler would allow integration of a cryogenic cooling system directly into a cryoelectronic device. Resonant bossed diaphragms were proposed as the means to sweep the working gas in the Stirling cooler, replacing the pistons and d...

We give general mathematical results concerning oscillating singularities and we study examples of functions composed only of oscillating singularities. These functions are deened by explicit coeecients on an orthonormal wavelet basis. We compute their HH older regularity and oscillation at every point and we deduce their spectrum of oscillating singularities.

A mathematical model predicting the oscillating motion in an oscillating heat pipe is developed. The model considers the vapor bubble as the gas spring for the oscillating motions including effects of operating temperature, non-linear vapor bulk modulus, and temperature difference between the evaporator and the condenser. Combining the oscillating motion predicted by the model, a mathematical m...

With the fast development of acoustic and multiphase microfluidics in recent years, oscillating bubbles have drawn more-and-more attention due to their great potential in various Lab on a Chip (LOC) applications. Many innovative bubble-based devices have been explored in the past decade. In this article, we first briefly summarize current understanding of the physics of oscillating bubbles, and...

BACKGROUND Corynebacterium glutamicum has large scale industrial applications in the production of amino acids and the potential to serve as a platform organism for new products. This means the demand for industrial process development is likely to increase. However, large scale cultivation conditions differ from laboratory bioreactors, mostly due to the formation of concentration gradients at ...

So far stimuli-responsive polymer gels and their application to smart materials have been widely studied. On the other hand, as a novel biomimetic gel, we developed gels with an autonomous self-oscillating function like a heart muscle, which was firstly reported in 1996. We designed the self-oscillating polymers and gels by utilizing the oscillating reaction, called the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ...

This paper presents a fixed-frequency self-oscillating high-power-factor electronic ballast supplying four independent lamps. The fixed-frequency self-oscillating driver is achieved adding a LC series filter supplying a small resistor. The primary winding of the self-oscillating transformer is the series inductor of the filter. So, if one or more lamps are damaged, the switching frequency will ...

The clustering of time series from oscillating dynamical systems requires appropriately selected features. We employed features stemming from methods of linear and nonlinear analysis of time series, such as autocorrelation and Lyapunov exponents, as well as features estimating oscillation characteristics. Optimal feature forward selection and standardization method, under the standard k-means c...